At day-break on the 2 2d of October, the Halve Maen (Crescent) sailed from Teller's Point on her passage down the river, with a fair wind, twenty-one miles, till the tides set too strong against her, when she came to anchor near the upper end of Manhattan Island. " The two captive Indians who had escaped at West Point had, it appears, made their way on the east side of the river, rousing on their return the spirits of Sleepy Hollow,'' or the more ferocious Manhatta,'^ and here 'in the inlet of Haarlem river, they had concentrated a force that impatiently awaited the arrival of the rich booty, which they flattered themselves they should obtain.'

"They had not waited long ere the Halve Maen appeared, and immediately hove to, near their place of ambush. One of the Indians wb.o

o Of the Mahicannl nation, who llvc-i'., say .4 Moulton, a little north- west of Whito-riains.-- b V\ho probably extcnJed tu Tdjijian Bay .--Moultoii.

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had escaped from Hudson's vessel now came out with many others, armed with bows and arrows, expecting to betray them."" But, says J act the mate of Pludson's vessel, "we perceived their intent, and suffered none of them to enter our ship, whereupon two canoes full of men \s-ith bows and arrows shot at us after our stern, in recompense whereof we discharged six muslcets and killed two or three of them ; then above one hundred of them came to a point of land to shoot at us, then, I shot a falcon at them and killed two of them : whereupon the rest fled into the woods. Yet they manned off another canoe with nine or ten men, which came to meet us; so I shot at it also a falcon, and shot it through and killed one of them, then our men with muskets killed three or four more of them, so they went their way."^